{"id":564873,"date":"2026-04-04T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564873\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:52:08","slug":"lavonte-david-said-bucs-would-freak-out-and-act-like-we-dont-know-what-were-doing-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/564873\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavonte David Said Bucs Would “Freak Out And Act Like We Don’t Know What We’re Doing.” – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What went wrong with the Bucs?<\/p>\n

Most fans point a huge finger of blame on coaching. Todd Bowles did, too. That\u2019s why he fired a bunch of assistant coaches, including his offensive coordinator and special teams chief.<\/p>\n

Lavonte David opened up on the subject during his visit to The Arena<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n

Why the collapse, Lavonte?<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of injuries, the main thing. And defensively, we had just a lot of moving parts and we just wasn\u2019t the same page together as a unit like we always used to be,\u201d David said. And when you have that going on and the offense depending on you, everything is going to spiral out of control. People have all their speculations and stuff like that, but what I loved about it as a team, even though we\u2019re going through all that, we still were trying to fight and figure out a way how to win these games.\u201d<\/p>\n

David went on to say the Bucs in tight games late last season would \u201cfreak out and act like we don\u2019t know what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is it on coaching? That kind of excuse is not in David\u2019s DNA.\u00a0\u201cI would never blame a coach, you got to be able execute,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In fact, David said players let Bowles down and took notice of his infamous public meltdown<\/a> in early December.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see Bowles in some clip, he\u2019s going off and you never see him go off like that,\u201d David said. \u201cHe\u2019s pissed off. Like it was a shock for us. We felt like we let him down. When the fans look in, you know everybody\u2019s blaming [Bowles] and stuff like that. But all along as a player being in the locker room, being a leader in that locker room, like a majority of stuff was on us, we just wasn\u2019t doing what we were supposed to do as as football team.\u201d<\/p>\n

David added that he\u2019s been in locker rooms that were falling apart and pointing fingers, but David said the 2025 Bucs absolutely were not that team.<\/p>\n

Joe loves listening to the new candid, post-career David.<\/p>\n

As for the Bucs\u2019 mental toughness, David\u2019s comments leave Joe encouraged that the Bucs have a lot of new blood on the roster and in the coaching ranks, and that there will be a couple of new core leaders in the locker room.<\/p>\n

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